On This Day: Jose “Pipino” Cuevas Destroys Angel Espada To Become Welterweight Champ At Age 18!
We Sometimes forget how great Jose “Pipino” Cuevas really was, at least we perhaps tend to forget what a great and monstrous puncher Cuevas was.
We Sometimes forget how great Jose “Pipino” Cuevas really was, at least we perhaps tend to forget what a great and monstrous puncher Cuevas was.
Two former world champions, one from Panama, the other from Mexico, both seemingly past their best but still having fire in the belly.
Mexican legend and former long-reigning welterweight champion Pipino Cuevas today celebrates his 64th birthday. Regularly posting stuff on FaceBook, the man who ruled the world from July of 1976 to August of 1980 has some amazing career to look back on.